Letters to the editor: April 27

Should have seen Riggs clinic cuts coming

Twenty years ago I worked for a small movie company. One day, were were all asked (execs, secretaries, readers) to a meeting, wherein the big honcho told us that we were in no danger of being fired - there would be no cutbacks, all is well.

As we walked out, my division boss asked me, "Why do you think he said all that?" I said, "We're screwed. I give us two weeks, tops, then we're all fired."

Ta da. I am Kreskin.

Then I heard that Riggs Community Health Center (upon which I rely for health care) had had a similar meeting. My husband asked me, "Two weeks, you think again?"

And two weeks it was.

So, money was given to Riggs to open a new clinic, to cut down on wait times, then Riggs lays off the people who need their jobs as desperately as folk like me need health care. Oy.